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Established August 14, 1965

www.montereybay99s.org

LOgBOOK August 2019 Volume 23, Issue 8

Our general meeting is Wednesday, August 21, 2019

@ 7 p.m. at the Watsonville Airport, EAA Hangar. –

(60 Aviation Way)

Directions: Traveling CA-1 North take the Airpor t

Blvd/Freedom exit. Merge onto Larkin Valley

Road. Turn left onto Airport Blvd. Turn left onto

Aviation Way.

Traveling CA-1 South take Airpor t Blvd/

Freedom. Turn left onto Ranport Rd. Turn left onto

Airport Blvd. Turn left onto Aviation Way

The Ninety-Nines Mission Statement:

"The Ninety-Nines is the international organization

of women pilots that promotes advancement

of aviation through education, scholarships and

mutual support while honoring our unique history

and sharing our passion for flight."

What’s Inside

99s mission, meeting details 1

Committees, Member Activities 2

Prop Wash, Gotta Love the Trim devices 3

Perpetual Calendar 4

Conference photos 5

Bettie Lund 6

Correction, - Katrina, Conference notes 7

Fundraisers., Flying Companion Seminar 8

99s—90th Anniversary Scavenger Hunt 8

Sign-up for Snacks, Dues & Donations 9

Calendar 10

ATTACHMENT

The Wright Brothers’ First Flight word search

Flying Companion flyer

99s Scavenger Hunt items

Southwest Section is promoting next year’s Interna-

tional Conference in Long Beach on the Queen Mary.

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Chair: Joanne Nissen

Vice-Chair: Jeanne Sabankaya

Secretary: Paula Gail (Salinas meetings) & ??? (Watsonville)

Treasurer: Alice Talnack

Committee Chairs

Aerospace Education:

Alice Talnack

Air Marking:

Michaele Serasio

Scholarship:

Alice Talnack

Membership: Kay Harmon

Historian: Carolyn Dugger

Librarian: Laura Barnett

Aviation Activities: Mona Kendrick

Legislative: Alice Talnack

WebMistress: Gabrielle Adelman

Public Relations Coordinator:

Carolyn Dugger

Hospitality Chair:

Joanne Nissen

Logbook Editor: Jeanne Sabankaya

Deadline: 5th of each month for the current month’s publication. Send info to jeannesabankaya@gmail.com

Monterey Bay

There was no general meeting for the month of July.

99s International Conference—Dayton, Ohio July 16-20:

Alice Talnack, Theresa Lewandoski-Byers, Carolyn

Dugger, Jeanne Sabankaya, Michaele Serasio

AirVenture/Oshkosh - July 22-27 Michaele Serasio

MONTEREY BAY 99S FORMED August 14, 1965

Member Activities

MEETING LOCATIONS

Meetings will be held either in Salinas or Watsonville de-

pending on the month.

Locations might vary so it is important to check the Logbook

or call an active member for the meeting location...which

could be either at the terminal or at another location.

WVI SNS

August September

October November

December February

January

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Prop Wash

By Joanne Nissen

Gotta love the Trim devices.

Trim systems are used to relieve the pilot of the need to maintain constant pressure on the flight controls,

and usually consist of flight deck controls and small hinged devises attached to the trailing edge of one or

more of the primary flight control surfaces (on small aircrafts it is on trailing edge of the elevator).

Pilots normally establish the desired power, pitch attitude, and configuration first, and then trim the aircraft

to relieve control pressures that may exist for that flight condition. Unlike light airplanes that use small

trim tabs to trim the elevator, trim on jet airliners is achieved by moving the entire stabilizer. Moving that

massive surface makes the trim extremely powerful-more powerful than two pilots can overcome.

The crash of the two Boeing 737 MAX airliners had a new stabilizer trim system called the Maneuvering

Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) that was installed to counteract the effects from two large

engines mounted far forward than previous 7373s. This created the plane’s flight characteristics at high

angles of attack to destabilize. In both accidents, a faulty (or missing or otherwise damaged) angle-of-

attack sensor caused the airplane to think that it was in an excessively nose-high attitude. MCAS started

adding nose-down trim to counter what it thought was a dangerous nose-up condition.

Lessons to be learned: 1. In any plane, know how to turn off the electric power to the stabilizer, 2. Pilots

of all airplanes with autopilots utilizing electric pitch trim should know how to disable the trim in case of a

runaway. Typically, holding the trim switch in the direction opposite to the runaway will stop it. Holding

the red autopilot disconnect button should also do the trick. Or turn off the autopilot’s main power switch.

3. Know where the pitch trim and autopilot circuit breakers are. There’s many ways to disable automation

in aircraft, and pilots should be very familiar with all of them.

Information from “Lessons from the 737 Max Debacle” by Peter Bedell—”Flight Training 8.2019 maga-

zine and “Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge”

I was lucky enough to receive some post cards from our chapter members who attended the International conference in Dayton, Ohio. It did not work for me to go this year, but when I spent a few days in Dayton a couple of years ago, you are able to feel all the avia-tion history just surrounding you. It is a wonderful experience. And with the dates for Oshkosh beginning the following Monday, the mid-west was aviation world center!! Be sure and come to the August meeting to hear all the stories and fill us in on just what sum-mer aviation stories you have!!

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MONTEREY BAY 99s

August

Chapter Anniversary—August 14, 1965

National Aviation Day—Orville Wright’s birthday August 19th

September

Wings Over Watsonville

Installation—Forest of Friendship

October

Southwest Section Fall Meeting

November

Nov. 2—90th birthday of the 99s

December

Holiday Potluck/Party

“Share the Holidays” aviation related toys for children drive

Deadline for Scholarship Applications

Day-after-Christmas, aviation toy shopping

January

Southwest Section Winter Workshop Meeting

February

Cookies for the towers & airport staff

March

MB99s Nominating Committee—Bi-Annual

Salinas Air Show

WIA

April

MB99s ballots distributed for new officers—Bi-Annual

Southwest Spring Section Meeting

May

MB99s Scholarship Award & Luncheon

June

Chapter Reports Due to International

MB99s—History & Scrapbook Remembrance/Updates

Identify pilots for Section Award @ Fall SWS meeting

July

International Conference

Officer Installation—Bi-annual

Membership donations due

Oshkosh/ EAA Airventure

Share the Holidays—start collecting toys

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Dayton, Ohio International Conference Photos

Dayton Airport - Orville & Wilbur Wright picture

Carolyn & Theresa on a look-alike Wright B Flyer

National Museum of the USAF—AEM banquet dinner

On the shuttle trainer w/ Santa Clara 99s Pat &

Laura...Theresa, Jeanne, Carolyn, Michaele

Awards Banquet—Carolyn, Michaele, Alice, Theresa,

Jeanne

WACO Airplaane Museum ↓↑ Historic WACO

Field . This WACO was giving rides. This muse-

um promoted women in aviation too. See page 6

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Bettie Lund

Aviatrix Bettie Lund grew up in the very early days of aviation. While flying was romantic and

daring in 1929, pilots frequently lost their lives. 1929 was the year Bettie met her soon to be

husband, stunt pilot Freddie Lund. After gradu-ating high school, she followed him around the

country as he barnstormed and did aerial stunts from 1929 to 1931. Along the way Freddie

taught her to fly.

In the publication “Science and Inven-

tion”, Bettie tells how she did 67 barrel rolls in

28 minutes, setting a woman’s world record.

Bettie says, “Prior to this record-breaking flight

in Miami (my fourth solo), I had only 20 minutes to my credit in the air,

alone, and I had never performed any stunts. But my husband, Freddie

Lund, was the first pilot to perform an outside loop in a commercial airplane,

and he had taught me to fly, and taken me around. So, I felt quite confi-

dent.”

Freddie Lund was killed while flying a Waco Taperwing during an air race in

1931. Andy Heins says of Lund’s demise in this airplane, “He died on October

3, 1931 in Lexington, KY at Halley Field. He was participating in a pylon race

when C. B. “Scotty” Burmood [not a Register pilot], flying a Monocoupe,

pulled up into Freddie while rounding a pylon.

October 24, 1931, three weeks after her husband’s death, and still wearing

mourning attire, Bettie performed for a crowd

at Droyer’s Point Field, carrying on the tradition.

Soon after, Bettie went out and bought herself a

Waco Taperwing, painted it red, white and blue like

Freddie’s, and began her own solo career. By the

late 1930’s she was one of the country’s top stunt

pilots.

Bettie served as a WAF during World War II and

transported airplanes from the manufacturing

plants on the west coast to the east coast where

they were transported to Europe.

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CORRECTION to the July 2019 Logbook

The Pajaronian erroneously

stated that Katrina Espinoza

was a “Watsonville High

graduate.” In fact she was

home schooled.

Conference Notes

154 delegates attended the conference and represented 945 votes (proxy included). The 99s current member-

ship is 6,990 members as of 6/30/2019, a 23% growth.

Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund (AEMSF) is now 78 years old. This year it provided 773 flight

training and academic scholarships totaling $11.825 million since its creation.

The newest section is the African section which had started 8 months ago. It now has 27 members.

The two amendments in question were passed. Amendment #1—“Electronic balloting for elections” was re-

worded “balloting for elections” and a clarification was made so chapters can choose to use electronic ballots

or not. Other areas of change were in the wording and basic “housekeeping.”

A wire-bound booklet was distributed detailing items for discussion at the annual business meeting. If anyone

would like to see the booklet, ask conference attendees: Alice Talnack, Theresa Lewandoski-Byers, Carolyn

Dugger, Jeanne Sabankaya, Michaele Serasio.

Tours provided: America’s Packard Museum, CAF Rise Above: WASP, Carillon Historical Park, Dayton

Art Institute, Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Hawthorn Hill/Carillon Historical Park, Huff-

man Prairie Interpretive Center & Flying Field, National Museum of the United States Air Force, Sinclair CC

Indoor Flying Pavilion, WACO Air Museum, Wright “B” Flyer, Inc. (Hangar & Museum), Wright State Uni-

versity Library Archives

Speakers, Education & Networking: UAS: Flying Drones; Helicopters: 10,000 Par ts Flying in Close

Formation; Rosie the Riveting Builder; Giving Back: Flying Missions for Charities; Keynote Speaker—Jeff

Duford, Memphis Belle: American Icon; Youth Aviation Programs; Five WAFS Up Close and Personal; Back

Country Flying; The “X” Factor and the DNA of Safety; Professional Pilot Leadership Initiative: Mentored

Networking; Right-Seat Companions: Employing Your Frequent Passengers; Flying Gliders & Chasing Ther-

mals; Aerobatic Flying with Attitude; Keynote Speaker: Christine Mau-Pushing Forward; more on Friday &

Saturday.

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Monterey Bay 99s Fund Raisers

Flying Companion Seminar hosted by Santa Clara Valley 99s

Saturday, August 24th 8:30 a.m.—4:00 p.m.

Location is Tradewinds Aviation at Reid Hillview

$90 includes breakfast, lunch, and materials

Call 408-712-4328 (see attached flyer)

Hi MB99s - August 9 10 a.m.—2 p.m. WVI Second Saturday August 24 10 a.m.—2 p.m. SNS Fourth Saturday Shopping on Amazon? Use Smile.Amazon.com to place your order. Select Monterey Bay Chapter of the Southwest Section of the Ninety-Nines as your charity to support Let me know if you can help with any of these. Alice cell - 831-332-3549

99s 90th Anniversary Scavenger Hunt

From: T Carbonell <GoDusty@hotmail.com> Good day, 99s Chapter Chairs: I have attached a link to the 99s 90th anniversary Scavenger Hunt. There is a list of 90 items to find before October 27th in commemoration of our 90th anniversary. These items should be able to be found anywhere in the world - they are not unique to the United States! Please publish this in your newsletter and encourage your members to enter ...... you can enter too! The entry fee is $25 then all you do is look for stuff as you fly. Create a photo album on the special Facebook group for the Scavenger Hunt and have some fun! I hope to see your pictures soon! Page to enter: https://www.ninety-nines.org/scavenger-hunt.htm Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2429295440637751/

(Scavenger hunt list is attached to newsletter)

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HOSPITALITY for 2019 meetings —Please sign-up and let Joanne know

Aug. (WVI) - Jeanne

Sept. (SNS) - Michaele

Oct. (WVI) - Alice

Nov. (SNS) -

Monterey Bay Yearly Chapter Dues and Donations 7/1/2018 – 6/30/2019 (Revised) As the end of the Monterey Bay Chapter’s fiscal year comes to a close the chapter officers want to thank the following members, Friends of the 99s, sponsors and supporters for their gener-ous donations this year. Adelman, Gaby – Bachman, Marjorie - Bamber, Demi - Barnett, Laura - Chauvet, Sarah, - Dug-ger, Carolyn – EAA Chapters SNS & WVI, Eisemann, Mary Ellen – Espinoza, Katrina – Funtila, Kim - Harmon, Kay - Harris, Leritha – Hendrickson, Jeanne – Hsia, Lynne, - Johnson, Paula Gail – Kendrick, Mona – Kirk, Petra - Levandoski-Byers, Theresa - Nissen, Joanne – Parks-McKay, Jane - Purvis, Sue - Sabankaya, Jeanne -Saylor, Mary - Serasio, Michaele –SNS, S.P.A./S.O.P.A. - Specialized Helicopters/WVI, Staff of the SNS & WVI airports, - Talnack, Alice – Nadene Thorne Examples of how your donations are used throughout the year are: We donate to the Women Pilots Museum, Amelia Earhart Museum, the 99s Endowment Fund, EAA, and fund projects at our International Headquarters in Oklahoma City. Locally, your dues help the chapter to preserve our history, maintain our storage hangar, aviation library, cover the expenses of monthly meeting and communications, expenses for vari-ous aviation presentations and activities, aviation related toys for the KSBW Share Your Holidays program, sponsor inductees to the Forest of Friendship, new member badges, and our yearly Avi-ation Scholarship Program for a local female applicant seeking her pilot license or new rating and more…

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Monterey Bay Chapter 99s

c/o Joanne Nissen

Rt. 1 Box 99

Soledad, CA 93960

Calendar of Events (There are details of some events in the Logbook)

2019

August 3 8 am– 8 pm Tavares Family Lowriders Super Show—SNS Airport

August 7 SNS Airport Safety Meeting @ Flying Artichoke Restaurant 9 a.m.

August 9 Second Saturday 10 a.m.—2:00 p.m. WVI

August 13 SPA—Flying Artichoke 6 pm dinner, 7 pm meeting

August 21 Monterey Bay 99s general meeting 7 pm WVI—EAA Hangar

August 22 SNS Airport Commission Salinas City Hall 6 pm

August 24 Fourth Saturday—SNS 10:00-2:00 p.m.

August 24 Flying Companion Seminar—Reid Hillview 8:30-4:00 Santa Clara Valley 99s

Sept. 11-15 National Championship Air Races in Reno

Sept. 28 SNS—Young Eagles rally

Oct. 3-6 SWS Fall Section Meeting—San Luis Obispo

Oct. 26 SNS—Young Eagles rally

2020

Mar -3 SWS Spring Section Meeting hosted by Santa Clara Valley 99s

July 8-12 International 99s conference—Long Beach (Queen Mary)